| Weekend Reading: The Intelligent Entrepreneur, by Bill Murphy Jr. The goal here at ReadWriteStart over the last year or so has been to provide a place where first-time entrepreneurs and early-stage startups can find curated advice, tips and information to help them launch successful ventures. This is the nature of the entrepreneurial community; to help others that want to follow in your footsteps. Some might say that the path to success for each prospering... Continue Reading »    Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you... Continue Reading » Finding Opportunity for Success in the Failure of Others Every now and then a product comes along - either from a startup or as a project within a larger company - that seems to meet a worthy need but just doesn't find its legs. Sometimes great ideas are pushed on us too quickly, or are ahead of their time, and other products capitalize on this market months and years down the road.... Continue Reading » The 4 M's of Attracting Investors to Your Startup Mark Suster is one of those unique venture capitalists in that he has experience as an entrepreneur prior to joining the VC world (or the "dark side" as he calls it). Twice, in fact. That's why he calls his blog "Both Sides of the Table," because he has literally sat at both sides of the negotiating table. It's this experience as both an entrepreneur and a VC that provides him a fresh perspective... Continue Reading » New Funding Recommendation Engine Helps Startups Find Investors (Invites) Identifying the right investors to approach for funding your startup can be challenging. ChubbyBrain hopes to make make that a little easier and equip entrepreneurs with more information and options with the launch today of its Funding Recommendation Engine. The free services utilizes data from CB Insights, whose investment research we often cite here at ReadWriteWeb as a gauge of industry and... Continue Reading » 5 Things Hollywood's Power Players Can Teach Entrepreneurs Startups and Hollywood are more alike than we give credit. After nearly 12 months at a Y-Combinator company in Silicon Valley, I find myself noticing an eerie resemblance between my previous life in the film industry in NY/LA. This week's release of The Social Network, an interpretation of the rise of Facebook, and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg, is another corridor between these two worlds. It'd... Continue Reading » | 
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